and romney's was disproceed portion nat in return. >> you know what's coming in the next couple days. egypt has yet to condemn. there's going to be probably a pretty strong movement in congress to yank aid if they don't start protecting u.s. citizens in cairo. >> foreign aid is not popular anywhere, but when you come to small rural states that are enormously stricken by poverty and lack of jobs, foreign aid is not a keep reminding people -- >> but egypt is not making it easy. >> this will be an issue. it's likely to build momentum. and you can't pull the politics away. the obama administration was moving toward approving additional military aid for egypt, givinging them loan forgiveness for farm aid and other kinds of economic assistance. and so it's all the more likely that there will be both push back and an effort to make clear that the administration certainly prior to this event had sort of a vague and uncertain approach to the existing egyptian regime. >> and sthenator lincoln, it do seem that the arab spring has been an interesting development to follow and there is democracy t